32 posts tagged with "Modernization"

Many Java teams run a React or Angular front end that only exists to show what their Spring backend already knows. Every feature gets built twice, once on each side of a REST layer, by two sets of people with two toolchains.

If you want to replace React with Java, or move from Angular to a Java UI, you can do it one screen at a time. Each screen becomes a webforJ view that calls your Spring services directly, and the front end and its REST layer fold into one Spring Boot project.

Your ERP works. The accounting rules, the pricing logic and the warehouse flows took years to get right, and the Swing screens in front of them are what everyone wants to replace. To modernize an enterprise resource planning (ERP) UI in Java, keep the domain code, and move the screens in steps. webforJ, the full-stack Java framework, embeds the running desktop app in a web page through Webswing, so users can reach the app in a browser early, and your team then replaces each screen with a Java view.

Your team maintains an app built around action classes, JSP views, and a mapping file. It works, the business rules inside it are valuable, and every new screen still means touching three or four files in different places. If you are planning a Struts to Spring Boot migration, or weighing an Apache Struts alternative, the short answer is webforJ, the full-stack Java framework, with your Spring Boot services plugged in: each action and JSP pair becomes one Java view with a route, the markup and tag libraries become Java components, form beans become validated data binding, and your services carry over unchanged.

Maybe you've heard it in a meeting already: the app feels outdated, users want it in a browser and on their phones, and every upgrade feels slow and risky. If you need to move a Java app to the web and mobile, the answer in this webinar is to stay in Java. You run the existing app in the browser first, then rebuild it one piece at a time with webforJ, the full-stack Java framework, while the business logic keeps working.

Your users want an app with its own icon, and your team wants one codebase it can update in a single deploy. Those wishes usually set off the web app vs native app debate.

For a business app, you can have both. Build a web app in Java with webforJ, deploy it once to a server, and let users install it from the browser to their desktop or home screen.

Your team has a JSF app with a rich component library on top. The data tables, dialogs and forms all work, but every screen means an XHTML file, a managed bean and a set of update attributes that decide which part of the page refreshes. Adding a screen feels heavier than it should, and nobody on the team wants to change the view layer more than necessary.

If you are searching for a PrimeFaces alternative that keeps the rich component idea and drops the XHTML, webforJ, the full-stack Java framework, is our answer. You build every screen as plain Java classes with a ready set of components (Table, Dialog, Drawer, form fields with data binding), route to them with an annotation, and plug the result into Spring Boot when you have it.

Java Swing technical debt has little to do with a broken toolkit. Swing still ships in the JDK and still works. The debt is that a desktop-only UI cannot be reached from a browser, a phone or a shared link, and every request to change that lands on a codebase that was never built for it. webforJ pays that debt down without a big-bang rewrite: you embed the running Swing app in a webforJ page with WebswingConnector, then replace screens with webforJ components one at a time, all in Java.

If you're lucky enough to be writing a new web app from scratch, it's easy to see how webforJ could benefit you. webforJ, a full-stack Java framework, simplifies your deployment and provides a set of components that conforms to web standards and user expectations, all while you enjoy the familiar experience of coding in Java and integrating with the Java ecosystem. But what if you already have a Java desktop app, and you need to deploy it to the web? Do you have to rewrite the whole thing, or can you modernize your legacy Java code into a fully functional web app? Look no further, because webforJ has the answer: deploy your existing Java app to the web quickly with Webswing, and gradually modernize it into a true web app with webforJ.